Improvement in draw-bars for street-cars



A. EGG-LESTON.- D'rawbr for Street-Cars.

No. 205,(522.- Paten-ted July 2,1878..

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ANSON EGGLESTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAW-BARS FOR STREET-CARS.

Specification torning part of Letters Patent No. 2054322, dated July 2, 1878; application filed March 28, 1877.

To all whom it may concem Be it known that I ANsoN W. EGGLESTON, of the city of Chicago, Cook County, State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Street-Cars, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan View Fig. 2, a front view; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section 5 Fig. 4, a botton View. Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged.

The object of this ivention is to provide a cheap and efficient method of attachin g horses to the car; also, to provide devices for supporting the evener or whiffletree.

In the drawings, A represents the platform of a street-car. B is a hook. 0 is the drawhar to which the hook is attached. D is a socket in which the draw-bar is located. E is a spring upon the end of the draw-bar. F is an iron or clip Secured to the evener. It is provided with an eye, F', to engage with the hook B. H is a curved metal har secured to the front edge of the platform. a is a guard pivoted at b to the iron H. c is a pin, also secured to H. G is a curved metal bar secured at the inner ends to the under side of the platform, and extending some distance forward thereof, as represented.

The ordinary dash-board is to be used, but is not represented in the drawings.

I do not use any pole or tongue.

In use, when it desired to attach the horses to a car, the guard (L is to be thrown over until it rests upon the top of the pin c,- then the driver can hook the eye F' upon the hook B, nothing further being necessary to complete the attachment. The guard a is then to be returned to the position represented in Figs. 2 and 3, and will effeotually prevent the accidental escape of the eye F' from the hook B.

In use, the evener will rest upon that portion ot' the bar G which projects in front of the platform, and this bar will prevent the whiftletrees upon the ends of the evener from dropping down to the ground.

The device can be used with two horses or with a single horse.

I have shown a rubher spring, E. A metal spring might be used.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The guard a, plate H, and pin c, in combination with the draw-bar C, provided with the hook B and curved bar G, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The draw-bar C, provided with a hook, B, in conbination With the iron H, guard a, and stop c, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ANSON W. EGGLESTON.

W tnesses:

O. W. BoND, H. F. BRUNS. 

